ตัวอย่าง pageant

• The conversational data led me to seek out other texts that contained references to body size, beauty pageants, and gendered practices of watching one's weight.

• Moreover, despite their historical import, such dynastic pageants were usually dramatized in terms that emphasized the divine, providential mystery of the royal line of descent.

• The neo-feudal ethos of the pageants only thinly concealed a rivalrous relationship, in which merchants liked to represent themselves as the peers of kings.

• Because only the monarch and his entourage moved past each of the stationary pageants, the potential for dramatic development and discursive connection was strictly limited.

• The polygonal architecture, niches, and parapets of these structures readily accommodated the pageants built on, around, or near them.

• During spectacles and pageants, monarchs consolidated their authority by exposing themselves to the gaze of their subjects.

• There was a concomitant development of a sense of town history, conveyed through pageants, local chronicles and compilations of records and mayoral portraits.

• Also, this diverse theatrical life was often built upon local medieval traditions (liturgical dialogues, mystery plays, passion plays, pageants), school drama, and aristocratic court theatre.

• The years pass in parade like pageants in a dream.

• The pageants shared with traditional renewal rites an agonistic structure, in which the "passage from chaos to cosmos" was enacted as a primordial battle between creative and destructive forces.

• Only when the values of this group were transformed by their dissemination in pamphlets, plays, and pageants by popular writers did they begin to have wide-spread appeal and innovative potential.

• Besides obvious affiliations with the stage and opera, the mayoral pageants were didactic, employing historical settings not unlike those in the heroic plays so popular at the commercial theaters.

• While positive aspects of beauty pageants exist, the detrimental features of parents encouraging participation in such spectacles exemplify youthful beauty pageants as an unfavorable family practice.

• Because of the numerous negative psychological, emotional, and physical constraints that participation in beauty pageants applies to young girls, it should entirely be considered an unfavorable and destructive family practice.

• Rudiments of the mythmaking that would support this sense of destiny, finally, were also adumbrated with the publication of the first inaugural pageants of the 1580s.